Lighten up, BD! I am sure that we all appreciate your knowledge and dedication. It just seemed to me that you were being a bit short (or dismissive) with Tim. He did find a word from the same base word, "apoyo," (or "apoyar," depending on whether you think that the noun or the verb is the base) which very easily could have lead to the correct morphology!

Although there is an adjectival form of "apoyo," Spanish does tend to prefer the "sustantivo de sustantivo" form of expressing what we call "compound nouns" in English.

The adjective form, "apoyante," is used mostly as a noun, meaning "supporter" (ie "supporting one").

Of course, the present participle, "apoyando" in Spanish cannot be used as an adjective.

There are uses of the phrase "arco de apoyo" which do not relate explicitly to architecture.

On other pages, "arco de apoyo" is used with the simple meaning of "support arch" as for bridges, and doesn't seem to have the specific meaning of a strainer arch which keeps walls, and stained-glass windows and the like from falling or leaning in!

Are you sure that "arco de apoyo" is the most specific term for a "strainer arch?"

Boy, it's hard to find the exact right terms in another language's jargon.

Good work, BD!

Your friend,

Apo

'Experiments are the only means of knowledge at our disposal. The rest is poetry, imagination.' -Max Planck

I don't think that applies to me. The smiley was simply a joke, and I wasn't being short (or dismissive) with Tim, I even told him that his suggestions are always welcome, and that is true, because even though something imay not be the right word(ing) in a given context, it can always lead you somewhere else.

Brazilian dude

P.S. Regarding arco de apoio, my friend the architect finally returned my call and suggested arco de apoio (what I had put) or arco botante as possible translations for strainer arch.

The singular of cathedral in Swedish is katedral ot domkyrka, the latter used more commonly. Dom in Swedish means judgement and domkyrka probably reflects the historic role of the church as a enforcer of what it perceived as church law- as in inquisition.